Why must we regulate wireless you say? Well as this SF Chronicle article (by the "bill of rights" auther Geoff Brown) states, there are several issues that consumers consistently complain about. And most of these are justifiable. For instance, who wants a cell phone service that does not work at their home?

Of course the CPUC is not going to help the carriers when, in attempting to improve coverage, they are prevented by local communities from installing new cell towers. For example, Nextel has been trying to get a tower that would improve coverage where I live for about 5 years. There are already many towers and building cell sites for the other carriers. But every time they have to go through the local city council, somebody will show up, literally crying, about how these "ugly dangerous cell towers are ruining our community and..endangering the life of my faimly". OK. But it's the same people who are in the phone store, literally screaming this time, that "the service is horrible at my home..endangering the life of my family".

Well, the bill of rights passed today. Maybe this will help some.